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Thirty years after liver transplantation (LT) was first successfully performed in a young child, it remains the treatment of choice for children with end-stage liver disease, malignancy, and liver-based metabolic diseases. After initial technical challenges were overcome, survival became limited by rejection, infectious complications, and other complications of immunosuppression. Long-term patient and graft survival dramatically improved after the introduction of cyclosporine in 1980 and tacrolimus in 1989.
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Soltys, K.A., Yersiz, H., Renz, J., Mazariegos, G. (2015). Pediatric Liver Transplantation. In: Humar, A., Sturdevant, M. (eds) Atlas of Organ Transplantation. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4775-6_10
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